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2. Women of Color Quilters Network - Wikipedia

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   The Women of Color Quilters Network (WCQN) was founded in 1986 by Carolyn L. Mazloomi . For many years in the early 1980s, Mazloomi had tried unsuccessfully to expand her circle of African American quilters. She eventually placed an advertisement in Quilter's Newsletter Magazine requesting correspondence with other quilters who shared this ...

3. Eleanor Burns - Wikipedia

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   Known for. Quilt in a Day. Television. PBS, RFD-TV. Children. 2. Awards. Inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame, 2012. Eleanor Burns (born July 3, 1945, in Zelienople, Pennsylvania) is a master quilter [ 1] and former TV series host of Quilt in a Day, which aired in 1994 on PBS for six seasons.

4. Quilt - Wikipedia

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   A quilt is a multi-layered textile, traditionally composed of two or more layers of fabric or fiber. Commonly three layers are used with a filler material. These layers traditionally include a woven cloth top, a layer of batting or wadding, and a woven back combined using the techniques of quilting. This is the process of sewing on the face of ...

5. Patchwork quilt - Wikipedia

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   Patchwork quilt. A patchwork quilt is a quilt in which the top layer may consist of pieces of fabric sewn together to form a design. [1] Originally, this was to make full use of leftover scraps of fabric, but now fabric is often bought specially for a specific design. Fabrics are now often sold in quarter meters (or quarter yards in the United ...

6. Tartan - Wikipedia

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   The earliest surviving image of a Highlander in what was probably meant to represent tartan is a 1567–80 watercolour by Lucas de Heere, showing a man in a belted, pleated yellow tunic with a thin-lined checked pattern, a light-red cloak, and tight blue shorts (of a type also seen in period Irish art), with claymore and dirk. [161]

7. National Quilt Museum - Wikipedia

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   The National Quilt Museum was established by Bill and Meredith Schroeder of Paducah and opened to the public on April 25, 1991. It is the only museum dedicated to contemporary quilts and quiltmakers. The main gallery is devoted to a rotating selection from the museum's collection of over 600 quilts. Its two other galleries exhibit rotating ...